Authors: Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Martin Harry Greenberg
ISBN-13: 9780786713714, ISBN-10: 0786713712
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
With its roots in the American private-detective fiction of the 1920s but traceable back as far as Sherlock Holmes, the private-eye story remains as popular as ever. Here are thirty of the finest short novels and stories from the hardboiled world of the private eye. The characters in this collection range from the tough, cynical, hard-drinking Philip Marlowe type to hard-hitting female sleuths and the one-armed intellectual Dan Fortune. This collection features old favorites and new contributions from masters of the genre, past and present, including Ross Macdonald, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, Michael Collins, Ed McBain, William Campbell Gault, and many more.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
Wrong Pigeon | 1 | |
Before She Kills | 28 | |
So Dark for April | 56 | |
Stolen Star | 77 | |
Guilt-Edged Blonde | 96 | |
Suicide is Scandalous | 109 | |
Dead Giveaway | 137 | |
Surf | 184 | |
A Reason to Die | 206 | |
Death Flight | 229 | |
Wanted - Dead and Alive | 269 | |
The Other Eye | 280 | |
Busted Blossoms | 294 | |
Out of the Window | 304 | |
Ride the Lightning | 333 | |
She Didn't Come Home | 352 | |
The Reason Why | 366 | |
Iris | 380 | |
Skelton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg | 399 | |
The Broken Men | 421 | |
Trouble in Paradise | 462 | |
The Strawberry Teardrop | 485 | |
The Nickel Derby | 500 | |
Greektown | 515 |